Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery

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Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered across the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this 'national sin' by looking close to home, drawing on local histories and myths to negotiate their relationship to the distant horrors of the 'Middle Passage', and the Caribbean plantation. For the first time, this collection brings together localised case studies of Britain's history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. These essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examine how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain.... class.a#39;10 Glasgow has been shaped by processes of capitalism, empire and
resistance in its crucial position in the north-western atlantic ... 12 This created
new forms of labour for the atlantic working class which suffered different and
varying degrees of exploitation and oppression. ... islesa#39; as an a#39;atlantic
archipelago, a#39; see John Kerrigan, Archipelagic English (oxford: oxford university
press, 2008).

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Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery

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Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley, Jessica Moody

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Oxford University Press - 2016-10-27

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